Greenville Gamecock Club to charter bus to Charlotte for game against NC State

The Greenville Gamecock Club is offering special accommodations for fans traveling to the South Carolina football team's season-opener in Charlotte.

The Belk College Kickoff Game against N.C. State at Bank of America Stadium is set for a 3 p.m. start on Sept. 2, and for $50 fans can ride with team spirit in a chartered bus with satellite, WiFi and DVD, with two Chick-fil-A sandwiches, chips and a brownie included. Water and soft drinks will be supplied.

Call T. Wayne at 864-901-8462 for more information and to reserve space. The bus will leave the Hilton hotel parking lot at 10 a.m. that Saturday.

“What a tremendous way to start the 2017 college football season with two passionate fan bases and two talented teams in a border rivalry game,” Belk executive vice president Jon Pollack said, according to a press release.

“The Charlotte market continues to be important for our university and athletics program,” said South Carolina athletics director Ray Tanner.

“Charlotte matters to the Wolfpack family, and we are excited to once again play a premier opponent in the Queen City,” said Deborah Yow, director of athletics at N.C. State.

This marks the fifth regular-season college football games that the Charlotte Sports Foundation has scheduled for Charlotte’s Bank of America Stadium. The University of Tennessee will face West Virginia University in 2018, and the University of North Carolina will face South Carolina in 2019 and 2023.

The Wolfpack and the Gamecocks have met on the gridiron 57 times with South Carolina holding a slight advantage with a 27-26-4. They last met in 2009, when the Gamecocks won 7-3.